Comments received from the public may be placed on a future meeting agenda for consideration.

5. Consent Agenda

The following items are considered non-controversial by staff and are recommended to be read and passed in one motion. Any council person, staff, citizen, or meeting attendee can request one or more items be pulled from the Consent Agenda and the item will be pulled and addressed immediately after the passage of the Consent Agenda; otherwise, the following items will be passed in one motion:

A. Approve Council Minutes of Aug. 16.

B. Payment of Bills and Approval of Finance Report

C. Accept Utilities Commission Minutes of Aug. 24.

1. Approve the Pratt’s Affordable Excavating Change Order #3 time extension request until Sept. 16 for the 2011 Lift Station #3 Rehabilitation Project

2. Approve the Pratt’s Affordable Excavating Partial Pay Estimate #1 in the amount of $29,431.03 for the 2011 Lift Station #3 Rehabilitation Project

D. Accept Cemetery Board of Trustees Minutes of Aug. 22.

1. Approve the transfer of funds from Repairs/Maintenance to Buildings to Engineering Fees for the 2011 Baxter Cemetery Base Map Preparation in the amount of $2,000.

2. Direct staff to send a Request for Proposals for Land Surveying Services to the four (4) local engineering firms.

3. Request City Council budget $2,000 in the 2012 Cemetery Budget for additional cemetery monumentation.

4. Place the cemetery garage up for sale in 2011 and eliminate the $2,000 per year in repairs and maintenance to buildings in the Cemetery Budget starting in 2012.

E. Accept Parks and Recreation Minutes of August 22, 2011

1. Authorize the submission of the Riverview Park wetland delineation to the Crow Wing County Land Department for approval and to the Army Corps of Engineers along with a letter requesting formal determination on previous fill activities.

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